Activation email maybe slow. This happened at a number of occasions, and if I see subscribed user accounts pending activation, I will take up action sending a personal email and putting the account active by hand.

Please turn off your spam filter if you want to register on the forum. I'm sending emails to the people who remain inactive, but if this still bounces, I am not going to register my email for every overeager spamfilter. Sorry. Update: some email services are simply blocking all mails from phpbb or even mails with phpbb urls in them. I've been mailing to all members whose account remained inactive, and a great amount of mail just bounced because of this reason. Gmail or hotmail are still fine, it seems, but sorry for the people who had problems. If you cannot get in, mail me at admin AT freestompboxes DOT com

Posting and external link is only allowed after you posted 5 messages. This is some antispam routine I don't seem to be able to deactivate. I put up a Test Forum, where you can post your first four messages if you do not want to wait. We understand.

Thumbnail preview pictures (i.e. a small clickable picture that takes you to the image itself) do not seem to work for Internet Explorer. Firefox has no problem with this, so if you do, please switch to an alternative browser.

Posting and external link is only allowed after you posted 5 messages. This is some antispam routine I don't seem to be able to deactivate. Let's live with it until further notice.

Thumbnail preview pictures (i.e. a small clickable picture that takes you to the image itself) do not seem to work for Internet Explorer. Firefox has no problem with this, so if you do, please switch to an alternative browser.

"The whole point of diy is diy. It's not dsoiyathodtr - do some of it yourself and then have others do the rest" (paulc)

Please turn off your spam filter if you want to register on the forum. I'm sending emails to the people who remain inactive, but if this still bounces, I am not going to register my email for every overeager spamfilter. Sorry. Update: some email services are simply blocking all mails from phpbb or even mails with phpbb urls in them. I've been mailing to all members whose account remained inactive, and a great amount of mail just bounced because of this reason. Gmail or hotmail are still fine, it seems, but sorry for the people who had problems. If you cannot get in, mail me at f r e e s t o m p b o x e s AT g m a i l DOT c o m

some of the problems seem to be related to this database, used by some email programs, so I'm not sure whether users can turn this off. Even if they do get registered, they won't be able to receive notification mails.

If you have problems, feedback or solutions on these matters do let us know.

thanks to all for their patience.

modman

"The whole point of diy is diy. It's not dsoiyathodtr - do some of it yourself and then have others do the rest" (paulc)

whammy wrote:I notice that posts can't be edited except for a short while after they're posted.Is that intentional ?

It is to avoid hassle in heavy discussions etc, but it certainly isn't handy. Editing could be correting a spelling mistake, or blanking out all your contributions because you got angry at something or someone. No problems with chitchat in the café, but remember in the tech threads you go on record.

I ask stupid questions on record all the time sometimes I hope it helps the less technically inclined...

hope you understand, but if something really bugs you, I'll help to edit the message

"The whole point of diy is diy. It's not dsoiyathodtr - do some of it yourself and then have others do the rest" (paulc)

Repeatedly? Or just for a few minutes. The notice says not to panic until the problem persists. MIght be a click on the original server... Don't hesistate to report temporary blind spots in the server availability, if there is a structural issue, I might take it up with them when negotiating a new server lease.

It's not the first time and if it's just 5 minutes a month it's not much of an issue. We are way below our bandwith limit so that cannot be an issue.

Just scares the out of me every time

"The whole point of diy is diy. It's not dsoiyathodtr - do some of it yourself and then have others do the rest" (paulc)